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I love how you are always plotting your next adventure! 

I love France!  That sounds like a fantastic race-cation. 

The friend of mine who did Austria last year stayed over a couple of weeks to watch the first few stages of the tour.  They got to see the early ITT stage which I think is cool because you actually get to see riders pass by for almost 2 hours...instead of having a 3 second blow by and you're done.

Kim, I just started carrying my phone. Right now I usually just tuck it in the band of my running tights, but that's not going to work once it warms up to shorts weather. What about something like these shorts? Pocket in the back.  I have a friend that runs in something similar and she loves them

http://www.teamestrogen.com/prodMC_300428.html

PS. can you tell me how to make that a workable link??? Since I switched to a mac I've become stupid. 

http://www.teamestrogen.com/prodMC_300428.html  I just use the link icon, which is the one that looks like a .... link.    I think the html tag is <a> </a> though

Not sure that pocket is big enough, but I do like the shorts and have been looking for new ones. 

iPhone for me. Been using the Wahoo Fitness armband. More recently, have been using a pocket. Might look into something like a spi-belt for when it warms up though.

My Blackberry just happens to fit into a little zipper pocket on the back one of my pairs of shorts....  ok, I admit it - they are Lululemon (not the ones I stole from my wife).

In the winter when I am almost always wearing my vest, my phone will fit nicely in a pocket there too.  There are times during the summer when I run home from work and have to carry a little more than my phone and then I take a small travel waist pack (an anti pickpocket thing for a passport and some cash)  that will lie flat against me and sit under the waist of my shorts.  I don't ever notice it as it doesn't bounce around at all.

Hum, I have a passport carrier thing, I'll give that a try today.

I used to run with mine in the back pocket of my Dri-Fit shorts. I kept it in a ziplock baggie. If not there, then in my belt pouch.  I tried the arm band, but I found it just wasn't my thing. It felt like a laptop strapped to my arm. You may find that a SpiBelt works. They seem to be the smallest, most flexible belts I've seen. I thought I saw something the other day that was a cell phone pouch that attaches to a handheld. I don't know if you carry water or not, but that might be an option as well. Or Nathan makes a shoe pouch. That would drive me nuts though.

Good Luck!

Question for the fishies. I jumped up a lane in Masters this morning. This lane sets their 100's about 10 secs faster than the lane I normally swim in. For reference, 1:50 is my very best 100 and I can only hold that for about 3-4 before dropping to 1:55 or 2:00.  I was able to hang on in the back but there was some drafting for sure. It's a very relaxed group from my tri-club, if that makes a difference.  If I drop down a lane, I'll be the lead swimmer 90% of the time. Am I better off swimming off lead in a slower lane or holding on to the back (and drafting when necessary) of a faster lane? Hope that makes sense. 

How big is the difference in send-off (as in how much rest are you getting)? I've been gaining more trying to hold onto the back than leading the other, but I'm also on a tighter interval for that. I'm eying the next lane up for this. I'll jump when I think I can make it, though for the group I'm in it's a big jump as we have fairly distinct faster and slower groups without much middle ground.

Don't drop down a lane unless you are really falling behind / not able to hit your sendoffs.  Drafting in the pool is overrated anyhow, since you have swimmers going both directions at the same time.  If you are swimming over feet towards the end of your sets, then maybe you can lead your current lane or move up to the next one.

When you say you are able to hang on in the back, are you having to fight hard to hang on or just cruising in the draft?  If you have to fight definitely go with the faster lane.

Yes! Congrats to Bryan...baby looks beautiful!

Just got back from a Tuesday group ride...love the lighter mornings and it felt like spring here today!

My son has his first cross country meet this afternoon. They run the season at a different time in his district (jr high). I am hoping he has a good race, first one is 2.5 miles, mostly path around the lakes.

I'd lose about 5 secs of rest each 100 in the faster lane. 

I moved to the faster lane this morning and I can stay with them to start. If I jump the send-off and catch some draft it's even fairly easy. Towards the end, I'm barely hanging on to the point of sitting out a 50 on a long set.  

I would stick with the faster lane for a while and see what happens.  You may find that after a few practices you can hang on for longer and not need to grab that draft as much/early. 

It sounds perfect really, just a bit faster to force you to work harder but not so much faster that you are just getting run over.

Always swim with the faster group (IMO).  That will make you faster faster than leading a group you don't really have to work to lead.